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Deepening democracy : comparative perspectives on decentralisation, co-operativism and self-managed development / edited by Joseph Tharamangalam and Jos Chathukulam.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decentralization in government--Developing countries.
- Decentralization in government.
- Cooperative societies--Developing countries.
- Cooperative societies.
- Economic development projects--Developing countries.
- Economic development projects.
- Community development--Developing countries.
- Community development.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects--Developing countries.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Decentralization in government--Developing countries--Case studies.
- Cooperative societies--Developing countries--Case studies.
- Economic development projects--Developing countries--Case studies.
- Community development--Developing countries--Case studies.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects--Developing countries--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Joseph Tharamangalam holds the Ayyankali Chair at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada and Adjunct Professor of International Development Studies at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada. He has published extensively on agrarian struggles, human development, decentralisation and co-operativism in India, Cuba and elsewhere. Jos Chathukulam is former Professor of Sri. Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Bengaluru, India. Currently, Chathukulam is the Director of Centre for Rural Management (CRM), Kottayam, Kerala, India. He has done extensive research on decentralisation and local governance across Indian states, Latin America and Africa. He is an expert of 'Devolution Index', which is used to compare the rate of decentralisation across the Indian states.
- Contents:
- Experiments in deepening democracy through decentralized governance : an overview / Joseph Tharamangalam and Jos Chathukulam
- Embedded democracy / Patrick Heller
- Socialist construction and commoning / Cliff DuRand
- Thinking beyond capitalism / Errol Sharpe
- COVID-19 context in India and working towards alternative paradigms / M.A. Oommen
- Citizenship and social suffering in the context of COVID-19 / P. Sanal Mohan
- Democracy and capitalism in the time of COVID-19 / Henry Veltmeyer
- The roles of NGOs, state and for-profit agencies in improving the maternal and child sector in Bangladesh : towards a division of labour / Ahmed Tareq Rashid
- Governance, welfare-based development and COVID-19 : Sweden and Kerala in comparative perspective / Olle Tornquist
- The cure remains a symptom : sub-national government, democracy and development in South Africa / Steven Friedman
- Reorienting people's planning in Kerala / K.N. Harilal
- The capacity conundrum in decentralization and local governance : how Kerala tackles it / Joy Elamon and Sukanya K.U.
- Employment creation at a decentralized level through the construction of niche structures and promotion of self-organization / Sunil Ray
- From agricultural co-operatives to farmer producing companies : analysing the transition of co-operativism in India / K. Gireesan
- Co-operativism to manage COVID-19 / Abhilash Babu and Sabu Thomas
- Cuba's experiments with cooperativsm and solidarity economies : a move towards 21st century socialism / Joseph Tharamangalam
- Lessons and non -lessons / Joseph Tharamangalam and Jos Chathukulam.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Deepening democracy
- ISBN:
- 9781003228486
- 1003228488
- 9781000821611
- 1000821617
- 9781000821666
- 1000821668
- Publisher Number:
- 40031529163
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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